“It's More Than Planting Trees, It's Planting Ideas”: Ecofeminist Praxis in the Green Belt Movement

Hunt, Kathleen P.

doi:10.1080/1041794x.2014.890245

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“…A moral contextual, ethically integrative approach for postcolonial food politics allows for Western scholars/activists to take both inter-and cross-cultural approach to anti-speciesist, decolonial praxis wherein it is of less importance to condemn the consumption practices of "Others" than to reflect and condemn unsustainable agricultural practices in the Western world (Gaard, 2001). And, more pertinently to this essay, it further allows for a critique of those moments in which subjugated and/or lessresourced communities fight to have their resistive voices heard in "post" colonial, non-Western contexts (Hunt, 2014). Thus, the premier tasks of anti-speciesist rhetoricians raised and/ or residing in the West is to 1) critique the species "tokenism" of environmental thinkers that value certain charismatic megafauna over others and 2) to build inter-and cross-cultural ethics that deemphasize moralistic outsiders critiquing cultural contexts they know nothing about while empowering community insiders to "challenge oppression within the movements and the cultures of which we are a part" (Gaard, 2001, p. 21, emphasis mine).…”

Section: Critical Animal Studies and The Rhetorical Construction Of "Meat"mentioning

confidence: 99%

Carnistic Colonialism: A Rhetorical Dissection of “Bushmeat” in the 2014 Ebola Outbreak

Muller

2021

Front. Commun.

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This article argues that a fusion of critical animal studies and postcolonial critique affords food systems scholars a richer understanding of Western media narratives regarding a “bushmeat problem” during the 2014 Ebola outbreak. To do so, I perform a rhetorical analysis of expert, journalistic, and editorial texts disseminated through outlets with high economic and/or social capital in North American and Western European countries. My analysis demonstrates three overarching themes in these texts regarding the intersections of bushmeat and Ebola, which I describe as: 1) biosecurity; 2) conservation; and 3) development. By invoking an ethic of anti-speciesism and decoloniality, I not only demonstrate the colonial logics at play in the 2014 Ebola outbreak, but also name an insidious ideology fundamental to food systems discourse in postcolonial contexts: carnistic colonialism.

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Section: Critical Animal Studies and The Rhetorical Construction Of "Meat"mentioning

confidence: 99%

Carnistic Colonialism: A Rhetorical Dissection of “Bushmeat” in the 2014 Ebola Outbreak

Muller

2021

Front. Commun.

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“…Indigenous ecofeminist movements challenge the promise of global capitalism with epistemologies and practices that connect all aspects of life in the cosmos (Mies & Shiva, 1993/2014). Mies and Shiva (1993/2014) define an “ecofeminist perspective” as one that “recognizes that life in nature (which includes human beings) is maintained by means of co-operation, and mutual care and love” (p. 6 quoted in Hunt, 2014, p. 236). Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wangari Muta Maathi exemplified this ethos through the Green Belt Movement in Kenya, which brought attention to the links between gender oppression, poverty, conflict, and environmental degradation in Kenya (Gaard, 2017).…”

Section: Decolonizing Resistance To Global Capitalism and Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wangari Muta Maathi exemplified this ethos through the Green Belt Movement in Kenya, which brought attention to the links between gender oppression, poverty, conflict, and environmental degradation in Kenya (Gaard, 2017). Through training women to plant millions of trees, Hunt (2014) describes Green Belt Movements as a type of “praxis to resist environmental and political oppression through empowering rural women” (p. 235).…”

Section: Decolonizing Resistance To Global Capitalism and Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

A Green New Deal for Social Work

Bhuyan

Wahab

Park

2019

Affilia

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People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We need a vision that recognizes that we are at one of the great turning points in human history when the survival of our planet and the restoration of our humanity require a great sea change in our ecological, economic, political, and spiritual values. Activist, community leader Grace Lee Boggs (1998, p. 254) On February 7, 2019, newly elected U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and seasoned U.S. Senator Ed Markey released a plan for a Green New Deal, so named to inspire the stimulus package they propose for the United States to address pressing economic and environmental concerns. This Green New Deal outlines unprecedented investment in public works projects, financial reforms, and welfare programs to tackle climate change and related "systemic injustices." Consensus within the scientific community attributes the acceleration in global warming to human activity (Oreskes, 2004, p. 242, quoting World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987) with devastating effects on human health and welfare due to pollution, drought, extreme cold and heat waves, more frequent and more powerful storms (e.g., hurricanes, tornados, wildfires, and flooding; Gamble, Ebi, Grambsch, Sussman, & Wilbanks, 2008). Growing concern for climate change informed a November 2018 mandate for "Women and Climate Action" authored by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women and United Nations Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. Mlambo-Ngcuka (2018) declared that "climate change and gender inequality are arguably two of the greatest sustainable development challenges of our time" (as cited in Brownworth, 2019). While the effects of climate change impact all people, gender inequality amplifies the effects of climate change for women and girls who, Mlambo-Ngcuka notes, make up 70% of people living in poverty worldwide and disproportionately perform unpaid care and domestic work which will likely increase with climate change (Brownworth, 2019). As Park and Miller (2006) argue, environmental disasters are hardly "natural." Marginalized populations who face intersecting structural inequalities are more likely to live and work in regions with higher

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“…Yet, we argue, these threads of scholarship are more frayed than interwoven, contributing to an unnecessary bifurcation of traditional and alternative modes of public engagement. Those largely considered founders of this field come out of the study of rhetoric and social movement (Cox, 1982;Oravec, 1984), galvanizing critical analysis of rhetorical tactics utilized in environmental movements (DeLuca, 1999;Hunt, 2014;McHendry, 2012;Pezzullo, 2007;Schutten, 2006) on one hand, with another strand examining rhetorics of institutional public participation (Schwarze, 2004). These separate threads are evident by the organization the first volume (Depoe et al, 2004), wherein case studies of environmental activism (including, for example, tactics of the environmental justice movement) are cordoned off under the heading "Emergent Participation Practices Among Activist Communities."…”

Section: Articulating Public Participation and Social Movementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Radical Potential of Public Hearings: A Rhetorical Assessment of Resistance and Indecorous Voice in Public Participation Processes

Hunt

Paliewicz

Endres

2016

Iowa State University Summer Symposium on Science Communication

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Little scholarship in environmental communication has considered the intersections between public participation and social movement. We fill this gap by discussing how public participation process can become sites of radical politics when publics employ disruptive or improper tactics, known as indecorous voice. Indecorum can be used to sustain protest matters beyond official forums, engage multiple audiences, and forge new identities among publics. We demonstrate the utility of indecorum through two case studies: Love Canal, NY where residents combat exposure to toxic chemicals, and Salt Lake City, UT, where publics challenge industrial expansion in a fight for clean air.

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“It's More Than Planting Trees, It's Planting Ideas”: Ecofeminist Praxis in the Green Belt Movement

Cited by 21 publications

References 16 publications

Carnistic Colonialism: A Rhetorical Dissection of “Bushmeat” in the 2014 Ebola Outbreak

Carnistic Colonialism: A Rhetorical Dissection of “Bushmeat” in the 2014 Ebola Outbreak

A Green New Deal for Social Work

The Radical Potential of Public Hearings: A Rhetorical Assessment of Resistance and Indecorous Voice in Public Participation Processes

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